[ Update: After writing this article late last night, I awoke this morning to find that none other than the New York Times had picked up the “easyDNS unplugs Wikileaks” meme and published it on The Lede blog – reigniting another wave of retweets, calls for boycotts of every company involved in the Wikileaks persecution, […]
Archives for December 2010
Ok, so would we take on Wikileaks DNS at this point?
So after the big clusterf*** with easyDNS being falsely blamed for taking down wikileaks, somebody posts the inevitable question “Would easyDNS take wikileaks DNS“? and from there makes what I think is a dubious extension: by NOT taking them we’re doing the same thing as “taking them down”. What I find dubious about all this […]
Wikileaks “takedown” fiasco underscores pathetic state of internet “journalism”
[ Updated Dec 4 and Dec 7, see “Further Reading” section at end of post] I’ve commented before that I’m amazed at how fast bad information travels on the internet, but this morning it got pretty ridiculous. Looks like wikileaks was the subject of a DOS attack last night, and their DNS provider who was […]
WikiLeaks….NOT an easyDNS domain…everyDNS: NOT easyDNS
Woke up this morning to some upset comments on the blog calling us out for “terminating Wikileaks DNS” and politicizing domains. A quick google search shows some articles spreading, obviously written by half wit drones with no simple fact-checking abilities at all (hello, whois lookup anybody?) including the line “But the biggest damage to WikiLeaks […]